Workplace reviews and discussion: 三友圖書有限公司

The environment is great, and it is divided into a store and classrooms. If there are courses, internal staff are also allowed to attend. When making handmade books, you also learn from the author by creating approximately one work. Overall, you can learn many things here, but people who do not like handicrafts or lifestyle-related activities may find the work difficult and painful.

Here, you learn to think from different perspectives, because the company emphasizes producing books that are different from other publications. You may need to read related books, examine the logic in those books, and rethink it. People with strong abilities to organize and synthesize ideas, who want to learn about a wide range of subjects, would probably be quite suitable for this workplace.

Bring your own toilet paper and stationery. Only basic shared stationery is provided (paper, clips, and similar items).

The working hours are quite long. You have to constantly adjust your condition and arrange your time. However, if your manuscript is rejected, you have to rewrite it using your own time. Sometimes you fail to grasp the key points, and the manuscript is rejected as well. Here, you may discover that your logic seems understandable only to you. When writing, your habits may also make your work difficult for others to understand. Supervisors will ask for your opinions (with the intention of encouraging us to think), but when you get stuck, you can genuinely be stuck. Often, these situations lead to working overtime to revise things (although if you truly cannot manage, the supervisor will still provide guidance).

I feel this workplace is only suitable for people with well-organized logic, because editors also have to help authors organize their ideas. If your logic is weak but you think you are good at it, you will remain trapped in a frightening cycle of working overtime.